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Excerpt from Oration Commemorative of the Life and Services of Charles Sumner, Pronounced Before the Sumner Literary Debating Society of Straight University
History has been described by the most brilliant of modern historians to be philosophy teaching by ex ample. This is especially true Of Biography. For in the life of an individual there is an attractiveness and a warmth which do not belong to events scattered over Empires and running through eras. It is part of God's economy that men truly great should be sources of influence for all time, inspiring in the minds of youth impulses for great exploits'and quickening manhood and even age with admiration when emulation has ceased to be possible. He, who studies the steps by which great power over self and over others was attained learns quickest the secret of attaining great power for himself. He, who turns his attention to the career of those who have put into their lives least of self and much of philanthropy, will be readily drawn into a life Of self abnegation and resolute bravery in adherence to the right. Thus examples of goodness come to have not only the form and force Of precepts but they have the cadence and rythm and harmony of poems. They proclaim virtue and illustrate it possibility, its beauty and its sure and great reward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
